Philip Pullman unveils his own new weekly comic serial, The Adventures Of John Blake

Sally Vincent enters the magical world of Philip Pullman, author of the first children's book to be long-listed for the Booker.

Philip Pullman has worked in Moss Bros, and in a library. Now he writes fantasy novels for teenagers in his garden shed. And he may win the Booker prize. Maddy Costa meets him.

Lucy Mangan: Disney has remade the Famous Five in the modern child's image

Remember learning to read back in the 1960s? Remember Ladybird books and that cosy, middle-class idyll in which Mummy wore gloves and Daddy had a good, honest job? Forty years on, reports Michael Bracewell, those romanticised images are enjoying a renaissance.

Maurice Sendak is widely recognised as an outstanding children's author, but he is more than that. He is an artist whose flair for visual storytelling is almost unmatched today. Jonathan Jones pays tribute

Maurice Sendak is an American Jew whose relatives died in the Holocaust. He is also an artist and storyteller, well aware of children's love of shock, and unable to suppress his own glee and optimism in the face of horror. The playwright Tony Kushner, who is collaborating with him in a book that embraces all these elements, celebrates an old friend .

Jacqueline Wilson, author.

He likes fireworks - he scattered his stepfather's ashes via 40 rockets. But it is in children's minds that Philip Pullman really ignites a spark. He talks to Dina Rabinovitch.

In Oxford, likelihood flies out the window. So where better for novelist Philip Pullman to base his fantasy?

Philip Pullman, one of our leading children's authors, explains how he gave a new sprinkling of magic to the Christmas classic Aladdin.